I HAD THE GREAT PLEASURE OF WITNESSING JJ JACKSON SITTING AT THE PIANO IN THE LIVING ROOM OF HIS APARTMENT (in Reseda California) ALONG WITH MY FRIEND KEVIN (who took me there and introduced me to him) ; WHILE HE PLAYED AND PERFORMED " BUT IT'S ALRIGHT " FOR THE 2 OF US. FROM THAT MEETING, WE BECAME VERY GOOD FRIENDS . HE WAS GENUINE , SOFT SPOKEN AND VERY HUMBLE . RIP MY AWESOME BROTHER .
@@oprin10 Another friend whom was introduced to me by JJ informed me that He ( JJ ) had passed away about 2 years ago. I relocated from Calif several year ago. I guess I just took his word to be factual knowledge. I hope he is still with us . Going to check with some other people that knows him. He was always so full of love. Thanks for this contact. God Bless. First met JJ in his own Apartment.
@@coolsweetgroovy No. JJ Jackson ( the man in above Video ) was my very close friend and neighbor , hung out together , sometimes we played some music . I just moved far away ,lost touch, and someone mentioned that he had passed away . I am not wrong . The last time That I heard from him , He had just landed himself an AT&T tv commercial .
Yep, this joint was the jam by October, 67. It was so popular that I connected with a beautiful girl named Monica Rivers. She was seated in a sort of corner of the basement at Barbara Atwell's bday party. I had just finished dancing to "It's Alright" and immediately afterward I spotted Monica Rivers and I was like "wow - who is that"? Monica Rivers I was told. She was 2 years older than me but I didn't care cause I was always looking at older girls. One year later her mom was my 5th grade teacher: Willie B. Rivers. Turned out I would be one of Mrs. Rivers' favorite students too and it's where I first heard the phrase "teacher's pet." Sweet Memories.
I was a teenager when he appeared on Where The Action Is. It was filmed at my hometown of Rosamond CA. This was in 1966. I will be 70 this year but this seems like yesterday.
I remember when he was the main lead singer of the Cordials, a South Bronx group "Keep an Eye" b/w "Dawn is almost Here" sung by Tito as lead. I sang with Larry and the Standards, "Where is She" We were like rival groups from the same neighborhood.
Awesome! The era of the 60's music, styles, and dances. I was a child then but I remembered the music, how excellent these artists were with producing and singing their songs.It was an exciting time to grow up in the 60's. There will never be another time period like the 60's . So many fabulous music hits of that time era. 🙂
This guy used to come to my house on Freeman Street, Bronx, New York. I lived in the Morrisania / Hunts Point section of The Bronx. Many jazz musicians came out of / lived there, including Thelonus Monk, T.S. Monk ( his son), Maxine Sullivan, Jimmy Owens...
@@larryhinze2557 At least he could move . I seen people with my own eyes individuals his size embarrassed people who are defined as average or of a slender build on the dance floor . Singer Cheryl Lynn moved gracefully when she performed.
I was about 14 when I played bass for him at a show at Howard University. JJ needed a band and my brother (a student at HU and a guitarist) recruited me to play bass, and a fellow student to play drums. He was a really nice guy.
I loved and still love him, great voice, talent and song! Will remember him performing this song on Swinging time show in Detroit the best times of my life in the 60s ! I would give all my tomorrows for a single yesterday in the 50s and 60s. Love the handsome big dude who could really move. One of my favorite all time songs!
@@t.d.barnwell7270 He was more of a songwriter than a singer, you often see his name (along with Sidney Barnes) on old soul 45s. This song came out on Calla (NY label) but strangely it was said to have been recorded in the UK.
@57dogsbody Thanks for your reply. There are just so many one-hit singers that have vanished and not much is known about them. But thanks for conscientious consumers like you and for RU-vid ...a great resource.
Jerry Lynn Stapleton when the one with the ponytail and the ribbon on the top of her head she was my favorite dancer and I wish they'd put it back on television❤❤❤❤
I have to add, too... That just by virtue of him being in, here, this cloistered, heat exhaustion-like, inducing 3 piece suit, compared with all these, I guess, happy go lucky beach goers in their skinnies, bikinis, shorts, etc., he's still out dancing, outmoving, out jamming, out-groovin, if u will, everyone in this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is sad. This NOT the real JJ Jackson dancing in this video. (The music IS the real JJ's music) This man impersonated JJ Jackson for most of the real JJ Jackson's career. I know because the real JJ Jackson is my grandfather. In those days it was easy to impersonate someone because black artists photos often were not widely distributed. My grandfather knows about this man but footage like this as well as album covers this man made still exist and even on Wikipedia this man's photo is shown - as well as this man's bio. The real JJ is still alive and performing small gigs. Is originally from Columbia Missouri. This song was written about my grandmother, his ex-wife - my mother's mother. On a side note, though now in their 70's he still tries to call her and woo her back LOL.
WHOA!! This guy got on TV pretending to be him?? Where was JJ and what did he do when he found out about it?? I've seen a clip of this in promotions of oldie songs and was truly excited when I typed it in and saw it posted! Now this?? Please respond! It's one of the few songs that makes me happy from that era! Hold up!! He looks like the man on the cover though!!
A.G Alexander, the guy singing and dancing IS THE REAL JJ! Natasha Brown has been duped by the impostor who wears a hat, and calls himself JJ Jackson. I worked with JJ while he served in the military in UK, and I was one of the musicians on " Greatest little Soulband" The guy in the video, JJ, wrote that song!!! JJ was always a big chubby, happy, nice guy!
Ha! That is too funny. Choose to believe what you like. Unfortunately it sounds like this guy was actually the one who got duped by an imposter. I'm not here to argue w/ anyone but to set the record straight about my grandfather's legacy - which is NOT the man dancing in the video. My grandfather was in fact in the military and did serve overseas and was the man who authored and performed this piece of music along with countless other less-known pieces, but he is NOT the man lip syncing in the video. I can't speak anything about the guy in the video as I don't know him. But what I do know is that I have heard my grandfather sing these songs to me with THAT voice live and in person with NO equipment since I was a child and have spoken to countless relatives and classmates from his hometown who will tell you in a heartbeat who he is and how he left his hometown for California to become the singer he was and still is. It's ok if he wants to believe the guy he knew was not the imposter. He's free to believe what he likes as are the rest of you reading. That doesn't change what I know to be fact. Again not here to argue but to set the record straight for those who are interested in the real man behind the music. And that is William June Jackson - aka JJ Jackson. Love.
Natasha, I'm afraid you've been misled. I knew the producer of this classic, the late Lew Futterman. Also interviewed Sidney Barnes, who was a colleague of J.J. Jackson. Both men had verified to me that the performer in the video here is the real deal. I know you'd like to set the record straight but many of the folks "who were there" are still here to verify otherwise. I wish you continued luck. Best, Kevin Goins
Myself, I remember all the dances and the songs, hearing the songs and seeing the dances on America Bandstand, HI-Lit, (Swinging Time, The Scene From Michigan) and Soul Train. The good ole days.💃🗣👠
Wow, Where The Action Is, Hullabaloo, Shindig those were the days of Go-Go and bikini rock!!! Great to see it again. Love seeing J.J. with all of those minis,lol.
As noted above, on this day in 1966 {November 30th} J.J. Jackson performed "But It's Alright" on the Dick Clark produced ABC-TV weekday-afternoon program, 'Where The Action Is'... At the time the song was at #27 on Billboard's Top 100 chart, the following week it would peak at #22 {for 1 week} and it spent thirteen weeks on the Top 100... It reached #4 on Billboard's Top Selling R&B Singles chart... Three years later in 1969 "But It's Alright" re-entered the Top 100, that time around it would peak at #45 and stayed on the Top 100 for ten weeks... Besides "But It's Alright", he had one other Top 100 record, "I Dig Girls", it would reach #83 on the chart in 1967... J.J. Jackson, born Jerome Louis Jackson, will celebrate his 77th birthday come next April 8th {2018}...
I think high school when I hear this, we use to dance like the people in the video at a place called Johnny's in Custer Michigan on Saturday nights where all our school would congregate and dance,I miss the good old days and the nieve innocense we had, but most of all the great music we had.
Back in the day every time I smoked a good Super-Kool, or some good Cucuy Dust, this song played over and over in my head. When I wasn't high I couldn't remember the name of this song for the life of me. I been clean/sober for over 20 years. Today when I hear this song It brings back memories of those crazy days.
Man what a great song. If you ain't moving after this, you ain't movin! Thanks JJ great video, want to do this at Karaoke next time. They don't write them like they used to.
The used another Clip of JJ Jackson Singing "Summertime" in a Documentary about Elton John. While he was still making his bones in Bluesology, a lot of American R & B Singers came to perform which included him but Patti Labelle & The Bluebelles after Cindy Birdsong left to join the Supremes in 1967. Elton loved his Voice. He go to work and meet a lot of them.
'You don't know how I feel You'll never know how I feel When I needed you to come around You always try to bring me down Oh, but I know, girl, believe me when I say that You are surely, surely gonna pay, girl But it's all right all right girl You can hurt me but it's all right Hey now, one day ah, you will see You'll never find a guy like me Who'll love you right both day and night You'll never have to worry 'cause it's all uptight Oh, but I'm tellin' you girl and I know it's true That I was made to love only you But it's all right, all right girl You can hurt me, but it's all right Go on, yeah Oh, oh, yeah My my my baby, wow, yeah But it's all right all right girl Hey, say it's all right all right girl Now there's one thing I wanna say, hey, yeah You'll meet a guy who'll make you pay He'll treat you bad and make you sad And you will lose the love you had Oh, but I hate to say I told you so, but Baby, you gotta gotta reap what you sow But it's all right all right girl You are payin' now, but it's all right So goodbye, now, goodbye, girl You're payin' now, say bye-bye You hurt me once, you hurt me twice Oh, but-a baby, that don't cut no ice Hey, goodbye, baby' ; 7 ]
The Spinners were also good at performing in Suits in Hot Weather as well as the Original Five Stairsteps. Him and Billy Stewart (Summertime) were very popular. In fact Billy and The Bluebelles did a Tour in Europe where Elton John was making his Bones in Bluesology.
Me and my friend Howard Hunter use to sing this song so much. that when we would see each other. the first thing we said. instead of hello. Was, BUT ITS ALL RIGHT!!!😀
SENSATIONAL! The Original Soul Brother! Luv how he does the "Skate" I especially like the ending of his song when he says "You hurt me once, you hurt me twice, ooh little baby that don't cut no ice." Great lyrics! LOL!
Of the song and I love the program the where the action is I used to watch it when I was a young girl and Jerry Lynn Stapleton what's my favorite when we do not have programs like this bring we need to bring the old stuff back so the young kids can understand how much fun it was being young back in the❤❤❤❤❤
